Dir.: Joel Coen
Plot: In the post-Civil War West, a fourteen year-old girl and a drunken marshal form an unlikely partnership to find her father's killer.
Well, the folks in Hollywood have finally deigned to release True Grit in the UK, and not a moment too soon - the waiting was killing me. The Coens are my favourite filmmakers of the modern era and seeing a new film of theirs in the cinema is like being able to go back in time and see a Frank Capra or Howard Hawks movie on opening night. Luckily, thanks to some sharp-elbowed maneoeuvring, I managed to bag myself the job of reviewing it for The Oxford Student (editorial privilege) and I thought I'd share it with you here, a whole four days before it will be appearing in print. So, without further ado...
